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Are physicists making up dark energy?
13 August 2010 PhysicsThis story was sent in by Gary Gilligan and is interesting as it represents the problem from an astro-physicist that believes dark energy is real
Nefertiti in Colour
13 August 2010 ArchaeologyArchaeologists are examining a cache of talatat blocks stored in Luxor, some 62,000 of them. They have been locked away for some years and only
Back to Kola
7 August 2010 Climate changePierre Gosselin, on his blog http://pgosselin.wordpress.com August 7th ... discusses a series of tree ring proxies near the Arctic shores of Euroasia which includes the
Marden Henge - what do we know?
6 August 2010 ArchaeologyActually, we still know very little. The latest bit of archaeological investigation has now come to an end (see BBC News August 6th) and we know
Neanderthal Sleeping Quarters
6 August 2010 AnthropologyAt http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-bedroom-house.html otherwise Discovery News, there is a description in juvenile terminology of the discovery of a separate space set aside in a cave in
Almagest Ephemeris Calculator
6 August 2010 DatingAt www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astro/almagestephemeris_main.htm is a web page with Java Script calendar and ephemeris modules for calculating geocentric luni-solar and planetary positions for an arbitrary calendar date
Himalayan Odds
6 August 2010 GeologyAt www.physorg.com/print200237328. html there is a report on a geological study into the formation of the Himalayas, the movement of the Indian plate into the
Demise of rainforests
6 August 2010 Climate changewww.physorg.com/print200224571.html once again, and a paper in Conservation Letters says 45 per cent of plants and animals making up the rainforest habitat will remain intact
Strings and Things
6 August 2010 PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print200224981.html physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the puzzling behaviour of super conductors - material that conducts electricity without resistance. Published in
Kangaroos
5 August 2010 BiologyAt www.physorg.com/print200126874.html there is a claim that the evolution of kangaroos was intricately tied to Australian climate change - but suitably confined to millions of
Painted Stones by Painted People
5 August 2010 ArchaeologyThe story is reported in The Scotsman (but see also http://news.scotsman.com/news/Neolithic-stone-network-found-on.6454132.jp ) stones painted with patterns such as zigzags and chevrons have been found in
The auroral heartbeat of Saturn
5 August 2010 ElectromagnetismAt www.physorg.com/print200123247.html ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (Aug 6th) claims that Saturn's aurora, a low ultraviolet glow which illuminates the upper atmosphere near
Lightning and Hurricanes
5 August 2010 ElectromagnetismAt www.physorg.com/print200126122.html (see also www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ) is about a connection between lightning (electricity in the atmosphere) and hurricane intensification. NASA are now peering inside storms
The Spacecraft Fly-by Mystery
4 August 2010 Astronomy'The Spacecraft fly-by mystery - is dark matter the culprit or is there new physics waiting to be discovered?' is another headline grabber from Casey
Cyrus and the Chinese
4 August 2010 Archaeologywww.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Extracts-of-Cyrus-Cylinder-found-in-China/ (see News section if story unavailable) ... it seems a British Museum curator, Irving Finkel, has identified a cuneiform text inscribed on horse bones found
The Out of Taiwan human migration
4 August 2010 AnthropologyAn article in Current Anthropology (April 2010) (see www.physorg.com/print190043379.html ) disputes the consensus model of human colonisation of the Philippines, Malaysia and islands of Indonesia
Ancient World Chronology and the Bible
4 August 2010 DatingAncient World Chronology and the Bible is an article you can find at www.reformed-theology.org/ice/newslet/bc/bc98.09.html and the author has clearly been reading Donovan Courville's book, The
The Kings of the Ancient Britons
4 August 2010 Ancient historyThe Kings of the Ancient Britons by Bill Cooper, can be found at www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation08.htm which is a rather peculiar document that shows a line of
Anatolia and Historical Concepts (another paper on Mitanni, the Hittites, and the Hurrians)
4 August 2010 Ancient historyA document by Robert Hewson (which seems to have been written roughly 40 years ago but is still available online and quite close in nature
EU Presentation.
4 August 2010 ElectromagnetismThe Thunderbolts newsletter has announced (August 4th) that Dave Smith, editor of the 'Thunderblog' at www.thunderbolts.info will make a prresentation of the Electric Universe hypothesis